so in waxahachie, texas, we started digging a hole to put in waxahachie, texas, we started digging a hole to put this super conducting super collider. it was scheduled to be three times the energy of what they've got now, three times the energy. budgets were allocated. holes were dug. engineering plans were drawn up. and the construction had already begun. early '90s comes, there's some -- the budget flinches, and congress says, no, we choose to no longer pay for this. and if you part the curtains, what you'll find is of course what happened in 1989 -- peace broke out in europe. and the cold war ended. the physicist was the darling of the cold war, right back to the second world war itself, because atomic energy was the foundations of, first the winning of the second world war, but it was the -- it was responsible for so much of the politics of the cold war. so the government understood the role of the physicist as not only -- how many missiles are in your silo, how many physicists are there with you in the silo. and i think they judge that the physicist wasn't as useful to national